This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: Wishlist additions for setup.exe
- From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna at efn dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 01:57:07 -0700
- Subject: Re: Wishlist additions for setup.exe
- Organization: bs"d
- References: <311010-2200442205467993@cantv.net>
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:46:08AM -0400, Rodrigo Medina wrote:
> 1- In the list of packages include its size. It is very important
> for people with slow connexions, so they can easily program
> what to download and in which order. For example you may decide
> not to download an updated 16MB fonts package with minor changes.
> Right now you discover that the package has 16MB only after the
> downloading of that package has started. Then you have to abort
> setup and start again. (This is related to point 2-).
The setup.ini file shows the package sizes, and is in a human-readable
format. It also has descriptions of the packages.
> 2- When you are downloading into a temporal directory, SETUP
> downloads the packages even if they are already in the temporal
> directory but are still not installed. I think this is a real nuisance.
It never does this for me; if files have been fully downloaded they
are not downloaded again.
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/